<p>Hey everyone! I will be applying to the University of Toronto this year to start in the 2010 fall. I have some questions about applying and things. First of all, where do I verify my school qualifications. Our grading system is from 1-5, much different than the USA one, so how will University access them? That is, do I just send my qualifications translated on English along with application or what? Also, can I apply to a scholarship as an international? Can I take a credit to pay my schooling? And the last but not the least, are there any students from my country, or Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia or Balacans at the U o T? If so, please can you ask them for the advice.</p>
<p>hello mate, im from HR XD, well, im not sure how are they going to translate our grades, our system is way too different (we have got 15 subjects …and american schools only 7,8… )</p>
<p>I heared that they evaluate our teacher recs instead of grades.</p>
<p>its really hard to get fin. aid, you have to be really outstanding applicant.</p>
<p>there isnt too many applicants from ex-yu countries, US colleges are too expensive for them,and our colleges are not that bad, and they are free. I know people who got into top colleges but without fin aid…</p>
<p>hey
im also from hr. i dont know for canada but from my school, few ppl went to the ivies with a full ride because those schools provide need-based scholarships no matter on ur nationality. there were many who went to the states on university but donno about scholarships.
[Fee</a> and Refund Schedules](<a href=“http://www.fees.utoronto.ca/session/fallwinter0809/fees.htm]Fee”>http://www.fees.utoronto.ca/session/fallwinter0809/fees.htm) -check here about the fees and any scholarships for internationals.
u can contact them and they’ll always reply.
good luck ;)</p>
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<p>p.s. credit na engleskom ne znači isto kao i na hrvatskom. kredit na engleskom je loan, pa stoga često dolazi do zabuna. pozz</p>
<p>hi thank ya’! well i am not much into states, not interested much…however, i do love canada, so I’d like to go there. Can get Canada out of my mind honestly. </p>
<p>Is it only me, but there is a huge distinction between us Ex-Yu ones, with hard school system and US ones with easy school system…At the end they get full scholarship with less work…</p>
<p>I am not interested in our schools/Universities…Crap. </p>
<p>Do you have any suggestions? What grade are you now?</p>
<p>Hey, I’m from Toronto…but I’m not staying in Canada. :P</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the process for applying as an int’l is like at U of T, but I’m sure there’s a ton of info on the admission website somewhere that tells you what you need to do with transcripts. They might ask you to send a brief outline of your curriculum and/or short course descriptions if they’re not standardized examination grades such as A-Levels or IB 'cause they might not be familiar with it. If in doubt, just email them and ask what the standard procedures are. </p>
<p>I’m not really sure about scholarships and the like 'cause I don’t plan on staying in Canada. What I can tell you is that there are actually quite a few Serbian/Croatian people in Toronto. There’s a decent amount of East Europeans who are either recent immigrants or they’re of that descent/heritage so they’re like Serbian-Canadian. </p>
<p>yeah, thnx for the post. I contacted already the University, but they probably need some time to respond. Anyway, hope to get. Checked the University page about scholarships they give to some good students in their 1st year. Good.</p>
<p>Another question, is Canada gay friendly? And Toronto? :))</p>
<p>No problem.
I probably can’t give you a good answer to your question about the LGBT community and stuff but I’d imagine that generally speaking you won’t have any problems. I like to think of Canada as a very accepting place. Of course there will be people who don’t support same sex marriage and the like but I have not met anyone that is completely and utterly homophobic. I’ve heard of quite a few LGBT organizations and I’m sure there’s a student organization (I’d imagine there SHOULD be one at least…) dedicated to this. </p>
<p>If you’re afraid people won’t accept for who you are, then the people who run away really shouldn’t be your friends anyway, right? :)</p>
<p>FilipZg, currently the following universities are need-blind and 100% need met guaranteed to international students: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Dartmouth, Amherst, and Williams. Cornell is need-blind, but they have very little funds to aid you (if you get in as an international applying for aid, you are likely to get $0-5k a year), so you are given time to look for outside scholarships and so on. Middlebury used to be need-blind until this year, when they said that although they have increased the international financial aid budget, they cannot guarantee that they will have enough money to be able to admit students in a need-blind fashion at this point in time (economic crisis, I think they will reinstate it in several years or so).</p>
<p>If that is true, why everybody just dont request fin. aid? I know that aid depends on your annual income, but a lot of people who are middle class got their fin. aid application rejected. They supposed to get some money but didnt. </p>
<p>I know a guy who applied, from my country. He was brilliant,sort of mathematical genius. He got rejected big time, from all of those ivies. 2390 sat, great teacher recs, a lot of olympiads and stuff, etc…</p>
<p>another guy, high class, ritch, got accepted without any EC, ****ty sat score and didnt have teacher recs…</p>
<p>FilipZg, obviously, it depends on where you are applying. Also depends from where (geographical diversity), your activities and lots of other stuff. 2390 doesn’t guarantee anything. In regard to the rich kid, unless his father was a donor, or he was a child of some celebrity (president or anything), it is highly unlikely that he got into ivies without teacher recs (your application most likely won’t even be reviewed).</p>
<p>p.s. i saw college gpa stats on college board (2% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24) and i know a guy who got in with much lower gpa. Why that wasnt calculated?</p>
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